''Part of DjangoSpecifications''

= Session framework improvements =

The following tickets are related to sessions: #3304, #1180, #6791, #6941, #6984, #7515.

Some of the tickets are interrelated, some of them pose security risks.

See also the discussion at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/browse_thread/thread/fbcfa88c997d1bb3 .

Other projects to draw inspiration from: [http://beaker.groovie.org Beaker].

== Proposal ==

The following is required from the session framework:
 * no session key collisions on creation (#1180)
 * there is a method for clearing session data (#7515)
 * session data is not shared between different users (#6941), session is cleared on logout; if user A was logged in when user B logins, session will be cleared on login as well (but not anonymous session data) -- depends on previous
 * supports controlling session lifetime (comment:ticket:2548:9 describes the use case)